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Time
to go that extra mile in Kashmir
Romeet
K Watt
Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has, undoubtedly, made history. He
has the distinction of being the first Indian premier in the past 17
years to address a "well-attended" public gathering in the
heart of Srinagar in Kashmir. Let us, please, forget how successful,
well-attended political rallies are managed. The mechanism.......More >>>> |
Idea of India is bigger than Kashmir
What
others say......
Kashmir,
we all know, is not just another state. For most Indians, it's
an article of faith. From different premises, different shades of
political opinion in India have arrived at a ‘consensus': The
country cannot
survive as a unified republic, much less a secular one, if Kashmir
ceases to be part of it.
On the left, this has to do.......More >>>> |
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Instability
in undefined Asia
KashmirTELEGRAPH
News Service
The US military operations in
Iraq and Afghanistan have created uncertainty. The question is not
merely about the nature of post war Iraq, or prices in the oil
market. The US actions are bound to have an impact on the internal
power struggle in the Saudi royal family, contest between reformists
and hardliners in Iran, stability ......More >>>> |
Towards
a permanent peace
K
P S Gill
There has been an enormous burst of
activity and accompanying euphoria since India's Prime Minister,
Atal Behari Vajpayee, visited Srinagar on April 18 and made an offer
of renewed talks with Pakistan over the vexed Kashmir issue. The
move has been greeted with a crescendo of international approval,
and has drawn enthusiastic.......More >>>> |
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World
defence against Uncle Sam
Sumer
Kaul
Behold
the raptors of the 21st century; that glint in the eyes, those
curving lips. And why not; they have just made a big kill. But like
all greedy predators, even before they have sat down to partake of
the juicy Iraqi spread, they are planning their next kill. Who it
will be is the billion-barrel life-and death question staring in the
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I.S.I:
From Pakistan, with love
Special
Report
Pakistan’s chief spy, head of
the famous Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), General Ehsan
ul Haq, will be spending the next 3-4 days with his counter-parts in
the American CIA, discussing issues crucial to the future of Pak-US
and Indo-Pakistan relations. His visit, at the invitation of the CIA
Chief, will be his first but will be ......More >>>> |
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Confluence
of civilizations will be better
Sawraj
Singh
Some
scholars feel that there is a clash of civilizations. This clash
can be between the Western and the Eastern civilizations. Some
scholars see a growing confrontation between the Christian and the
Islamic civilizations. Samuel Huntington’s book The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order really promoted.......More >>>> |
Present
international challenges
for peace
Yashwant
Sinha
Much
has changed as a result of Iraq. But some verities remain
unaffected. One of them is the fundamental and pre – eminent
threat posed to peace, civilization, democracy and the rule of law
by international terrorism. And as far as India is concerned, pre
– Iraq or post –Iraq, one of the most critical challenges that
confronts.....More >>>> |
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How
strong is India vis-a-vis Pakistan
M
V Kamath
Strong
criticism of the Defence Ministry has been voiced in the Lok
Sabha following the tabling of a Parliamentary Committee report on
22 April, on the working of the Ministry and the garnering and
spending of resources. According
to the report, notwithstanding the trauma of Kargil and other
assaults on national security.......More >>>> |
Complimenting
Imperialist Designs
Ram Puniyani
Decades
ago M.S. Golwalkar, the then RSS Sarsanghchalak, supremo, had
supported the America's aggression on Vietnam. That was the time
when most of the World was condemning the US offensive, its use of
inhuman weapons on the unarmed citizens of Vietnam. The pretext for
US was that the emerging Vietnamese.......More >>>> |
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